Ruslan Galitsky

Ruslan Galitsky (died 7 December 2016) was a Colonel of the Russian Army who served as commander of the 5th Guards Tank Brigade of Ulan Ude, Siberia after serving in the Moscow Military District. Galitksy was sent to Syria to advise the Syrian Arab Army during the Syrian Civil War, and he helped in training a Syrian Army unit during the fight for Aleppo. Galitsky was mortally wounded during the Free Syrian Army's shelling of a residential neighborhood of western Aleppo in December 2016, and he died a few days later.